Michael Fleischer (businessman)
- Michael Fleischer (businessman)
Michael Fleischer is a United States businessman from the state of New Jersey and on March 13 2004 was appointed to the post of Director of Private Sector Development for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He had been a deputy in the Office of Private Sector Development since November 2003.
He took leave from Bogen Communications International, Inc., where he was president and a member of the Board of Directors, in order to serve in Iraq. He has since returned to Bogen. He is the brother of former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.
Criticism in Iraq
The Private Sector Development run by Fleischer came under criticism by many military and civilian analysts for removing Iraqi government subsidies to state owned businesses. This, it was argued, threw thousands out of work thereby giving the insurgency a disaffected pool of recruits. In the area under British control the subsidies were continued.[cite book |title=Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. |last=Ricks |first=Thomas E.|authorlink=Thomas E. Ricks |year=2006 |publisher=The Penguin Press HC|isbn=159420103X] [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1125050,00.html The $500 billion fire sale | Weekend | Guardian Unlimited ] ] ]In an article printed in the New York Review of Books Peter W. Galbraith, a former US Ambassador to Croatia commented on the policy of not supporting Iraqi state-owned enterprises; 'The privatizing of Iraq's economy was handled at first by Thomas Foley, a top Bush fund-raiser, and then by Michael Fleisher, brother of President Bush's first press secretary. ...he told the Chicago-Tribune...that the Americans were going to teach the Iraqis a new way of doing business. "The only paradigm they know is cronyism."' [New York Review of Books; Volume 51, Number 14; September 23, 2004; Iraq: The Bungled Transition] Even by critics Fleischer was seen as honest, well-meaning and working vigorously to rebuild Iraq implementing free market principles. [ [http://www2.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_09/004695.php The Washington Monthly ] ]
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External links
* [http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/occupation/2004/0620planners.htm Insiders Shape Postwar Iraq, by Andrew Zajac]
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